What is desktopization? The tendency of web apps to do “desktop collaboration”. This is not to be confused with the destopfying of web apps with Flex or AJAX. For this to grow to it’s full extent, three main ingredients are important (continue reading after the jump).
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Web 2.0 Social Media Revolt: An open letter to Digg from Top Digg Users
Valleywag is reporting on an open letter from top Digg users and their intents to defect to another social media site, due to Digg’s secrecy and lack of transparency.
The letter points out 5 mayor Digg faults:
1) Lack of communication and disregard for the Digg community
2) Unexplained and unacknowledged banning of top users
3) Lack of transparency [...]
Raskpace’s ad in Twitteriffic
Need I say more?
AT&T more open. iPhone Next?
AT&T is showing real signs of being more open with their new “bring your phone, just buy the sim card” plan which no longer requires a long term commitment (after an aplogy). This is a huge step in US wireless industry, and just in time for the wireless spectrum auction, which has become a “openness [...]
MacHeads: The movie
Macs are more than computers: they are a community by people that chose to be different.
Count me in to see that movie.
Macheads - the movie (trailer)Uploaded by brunogarattoni
P.S. Mac enthusiasts are NOT comparable to Trekkies!
(Via TUAW.)
How Microsoft marketing “Macs” a product
Microsoft’s tacky taste dose not go with Mac users. They go as far as repackaging in order to seem different (better) in the eyes of pickier Mac users. This is the exact opposite of the famous Microsoft iPod:
(Via Valleywag.)
Hosting gone bad: EVERYWHERE!!!
Signs of economic recession are hitting everywhere….even hosting services. It’s been a tough year for hosting provider. A lot of them have suffered from bad PR in different areas:
Rackspace: If last year’s catastrophe wasn’t enough, another one of Rackspace big named customer(37signals) suffered a two hour outage because of a bad load balancer.
UPDATE: Tumblr [...]
NewsGator wants your Attention
NetNewsWire and FeedDemond (from NewsGator) recently released their RSS reader as freeware so that they could get more information on user interaction: Attention. Here is what they’ve been collecting for a while:
Brent Simmons told me that almost every interaction you make in respect to your subscriptions and individual news items can be factored. Flagging, taking [...]
Sun purcahses MYSQL
In a blog post today, Jonthan Schwart, CEO of Sun Microsystems (JAVA) is announcing their acquisition of MySQl. This actually solidifies them as a great open source contributer.
The good news is Sun is already committed to the business model at the heart of MySQL’s success - first investing to grow communities of users and [...]
Watch the Macwold keynote like you were there
I have to be out of the office all day tomorrow, and won’t be able to watch the live feeds for the keynote. So I decided that I would wait till night and watch it without reading the news…just like being live (more like TiVo). I couldn’t figure out a way to actually [...]